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„The studio people want me to do “Good-bye Charlie” for the movies, but I’m not going to do it. I don’t like the idea of playing a man in a woman’s body — you know? It just doesn’t seem feminine.“
„An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.“
„My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation — but I’m working on the foundation.“
„For life: It is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: The truth can only be recalled, never invented.“
„I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up.“
„First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.“
„A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.“
„Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde.“
„I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. … Goethe said, “Talent is developed in privacy,” you know? And it’s really true. … Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.“
„They feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you, of any kind of nature — and it won’t hurt your feelings — like it’s happening to your clothes not you.“
„I know I will never be happy but I know I can be gay! Remember I told you Kazan said I was the gayest girl he ever knew and, believe me, he has known many. But he loved me for one year and once rocked me to sleep one night when I was in great anguish. He also suggested that I go into analysis and later wanted me to work with Lee Strasberg. Was it Milton who wrote: “The happy ones were never born?”“
„Why? — It paid the rent.“
„Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.“
„That’s the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I’m going to be a symbol of something, I’d rather it be sex than some of the things we’ve got symbols of… I just hate to be a thing.“
„The truth is I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t. When they found this out, they would blame me for disillusioning them and fooling them.“
„I am aware, that I am a woman, and I enjoy being a woman.“
„I guess I never felt I had an effect on people until I was in Korea.“
„A sex symbol is a heavy load to carry when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.“
„People have curious attitudes about nudity just as they have about sex. Nudity and sex are the most commonplace things in the world. Yet people often act as if they were things that only existed on Mars.“
„If you get massages, you’ll never need another sleeping pill.“
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